After 36 participations, Nellie (82) says goodbye to the Four Days Marches in a hospital bed: ‘would prefer to walk along’

She walked out of the Mars 36 times. The twenty years after she was a continuous spectator. Nellie Arts (82) became a child in a small, Brabant village of the Vierdaagse and never let go. Met -sown bone cancer, discovered last month, suddenly makes a farewell inevitable. But as long as it is still possible, ‘Nel’ wants to be there. Especially for brother Wim. “I still think it’s so beautiful.”

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